Stephen Mulligan
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Adult Players' Awards Night

The Adult Player of the Year Awards were held on Friday night in a packed clubhouse! A great night was had, with lots of trophies and medals handed out to our championship winners, topped off by some great entertainment from our own Neil Shanahan. Here is a list of all the deserving winners and some snaps of some of them receiving their awards.

SENIOR WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year         Carrie O’Connor

Joint Player of the Year  Ciara Dunlea

JUNIOR A WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year           Edel Nyland

Young Player of the Year       Grace O’Donnell

JUNIOR B WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year             Eva O’Connor

JUNIOR C WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year             Louise Doyle

ADULT CAMOGIE

Player of the Year                  Eimear Mangan

Young Player of the Year      Grace Meikle

Most Improved Player         Faye Crumlish

u21 Men’s FOOTBALL

Player of the Tournament Cian Goode

u21 men’s Hurling

Player of the Tournament Mikey Devine

senior MEN'S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year          Liam Howley

Young Player of the Year        Ben Bolger

Intermediate MEN'S FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year          Ciaran Giles

Joint Player of the Year          Sean O’Grady

Junior Men’s FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year          Eoghan Stanley

Joint Player of the Year          Fintan Birch

Senior hurling

Player of the Year         Tommy O’Brien

Young Player of the Year        Paddy McKeon

junior a HURLING

Player of the Year         Conor Caulfield

Young Player of the Year         Robin McGill

junior b HURLING

Player of the Year         Kenneth Hayes

For Dedication and Commitment to Clontarf Hurling  Noel Wardick

The Second Annual Nora Arthur Memorial Tournament

On Friday 29th December we held the second Annual Nora Arthur Memorial Tournament at the club in which twelve teams of adult players, mentors and parents competed over the course of the afternoon for the memorial trophy named in honour of Nora.

The eponymous trophy was presented to the winning captain Mattias Mac Donncha (Tiz) on behalf of the winning Team 5 by Nora’s Dad, Neil.

The teams

THE FINAL AND THE OVERALL WINNERS

After 18 high-intensity and dramatic “group-stage” matches and two high-stakes semi finals, a tense and exciting final ensued between Team 12 and Team 5. Team 5 would eventually win the day by 4-0 with a second title in a row for young Cian O’Connor and a goal to boot! A worthy final for a brilliant day of sport and craic.

Not only that, but a whopping €2,900 (and still rising!) was raised for the very worthy cause of Oscar’s Kids. Well done to all involved. If you’d still like to donate, click here.

With apologies for the mediocre quality (!), some snaps from the day below.

Community Christmas Party

It was Clontarf GAA’s great privilege to host a wonderful Christmas Party for our local Ukrainian families today. Thanks to everyone who came, we hope you enjoyed it!

Huge thanks are due to all those involved in organising the event, led by Roisin Kelly in our Healthy Club team. That includes everyone who brought gifts and provided the lovely Irish and Ukrainian food and Manning’s Bakery for their seasonal delicacies. Particular thanks to the Sean Treacy Trad group, the Sean Gilligan Performing Arts group and our Ukrainian family singers and musicians for the fantastic entertainment.

Thanks also to our young leaders on the Dermot Earley Youth Leadership Programme who did the face painting and kids games - and of course to our special visitor Santa for taking time out from his busy schedule to join us to help make it such a truly special occasion!

Some great photos and videos are below.

New Hurls and Helmets for our Nursery!

Our nursery boys and girls got their first Hurls and Helmets this week, sponsored by Little Sport Bikes. Ken from Little Sport dropped in this morning to see the lads in action. Some photos below courtesy of the PRO Team.

Sponsor Night 2023

We had a great night down in the club this evening where we welcomed our sponsors and patrons to say a heartfelt THANK YOU for their support. It was great to see representatives from our players and mentors in attendance as well and a very sociable evening was had by all with some delicious food from one of our patrons, Camile Thai Artane.

Our sponsors are:

  • Kish Fish

  • Little Sport

  • Mason Hayes Curran

  • Member First Credit Union

  • Mkn Property Group

  • MSL Motors

  • Karen Mulvaney Property

  • Nolans Of Clontarf

  • Grimes

  • Staffords Funeral Homes

  • Teneo

  • Tyler Owens Architects

  • Valentia Partners

  • Arachas

  • Avolon

  • Bay

  • Beshoff Bros

  • Bright Motor Group

  • Clontarf Orthodontics

  • Ergo

  • Eurooil

  • Gilna Opticians

  • Hamill Estate Agents

  • Hayes Solicitors

  • Insomnia

  • Kinara

Pop Up Gaeltacht Thursday 16th 8:30pm

The next Clontarf GAA Club Pop Up Gaeltacht of 2023 will take place on Thursday 16th November from 8.30 pm in the Cúl Doras (Club Bar). Everyone is welcome with a ‘céad míle fáilte’ and all levels of Irish. Love to see you all there on the night to enjoy the craic and comhrá.

Táimid ar ais le Pop-Up Gaeltacht ar an 16/11/2023 (Déardaoin ag 8.30 i.n.) i gCumann Lúthchleas Gael Chluain Tarbh. Beidh fáilte mhór roimh gach duine agus gach caighdeán don Ghaeilge. Beidh craic agus comhrá agus ba bhreá linn tú féin agus do chairde a bheith ann chun an ócáid a cheiliúradh.

Eólas ó (Info from): Éanna Ó Murchú (endamurf@gmail.com) / administrator.clontarf.dublin@gaa.ie

Senior Men's Footballers are Dublin Champions!

A huge day for the club today as our Senior Men’s Football team became the first club team ever to win a Senior Championship in any code. It was the finest of margins in the end as Conor Rooney’s left boot saw the team pip Fingallians by a single point, but a magnificent team performance in the final quarter brought it all together. Massive congratulations to the whole team, the management group, physios and all the supporters who showed up in numbers to cheer the lads on to eventual victory!

A fantastic gallery of photos below from the amazing Pat Walsh. Thanks again Pat.

And, of course, thanks to the team sponsor Bright Motor Group for their brilliant support this year.

Chair's Night 2023

We had a fantastic night in the clubhouse this evening, with our Famous Five Women’s All Ireland Winners Caoimhe O’Connor, Niamh Hetherton, Mossie Ó Cuinneagáin, Mick Bohan and Willie O’Connor and the legend that is multi-All Ireland winner Jack McCaffrey in a fantastic chat with our own Damien O’Meara. A huge crowd of mentors and club helpers were in attendance to make it a most enjoyable evening.

Kevin also presented Club Person of the Year to Ciaran Doran, Mentor of the Year to Eoghan Hannigan and Club Legend or Laoch Chluain Tarbh to Anne O’Mahony.

A selection of photos from the evening are below with thanks to the PRO Team.

€20,000 Lotto shared between two winners!

Last week, our long overdue lotto win finally came and, like a Dublin Bus, you wait for ages and then two come at once! Huge congratulations to Conall Kehoe and Kevin Daly who were presented with their cheques for €10,000 in the Cúldoras bar last night by Club Chair Kevin Hoy and Jonathan Stafford from Stafford’s Funeral Home, our lotto sponsor. Well done lads and spend it well with all our best wishes!